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Improvement in Coopers Croze and Hdwel.

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UNITED STATES PATENT OFFI E- ANTHONY BUSENGER, OF MOUNT SOLON, VIRGINIA.

IMPROVEMENT IN CO-OPERS CROZES AN D HOWELS.

Specification forming part of Letters Patent No. 119,570, dated October3, 1871.

To all whom it may concern:

Be it known that I, ANTHONY BUSENGER, of Mount Solon, in the county ofAugusta and State of Virginia, have invented a new and valuableImprovement in Coopers Croze and Howel; and I do hereby declare that thefollowing is a full, clear, and exact description of the constructionand operation of the same, reference being had to the annexed drawingmaking a part of this specification, and to the letters and figures ofreference marked thereon.

Figure 1 of the drawing is a face view of my invention. Fig. 2 is anunder-side view of the same.

This invention has relation to a combinationtool for coopers use; and itconsists in the construction and arrangement of a chamfering-plane,levelingplane, and crozing-bit, for shaping the rims of barrels, ashereinafter described.

In the accompanying drawing, representing this tool, A indicates thechamfering-stock, constructed with a segmental or convex face of a sizeand nature to suit the kind or size of barrel the rim of which is to bechamfered. B repre sents the chamfering-bit, inserted from the back ofthe stock, its edge projecting beyond the convex face. D designates asecond stock, designed to hold the leveling and crozing-bits. It is thesame in curvature as the chamfering-stock, their convex faces beingsegments of the same circle. The convex face of the stock D projectsbeyond that of the stock A, so that when the latter is being used theflat planing surface E, lying betweeen the two respective concavesurfaces, and having the bit F, shall slide around the edge of thebarrel and plane the staves even and smooth. From the convex surface ofthe stock D the end of a groove or crozing-bit, (1, projects. It isbrought into use after the barrel has been chamfered and leveled, and isguided by means of a ledge or flange, G, projecting from its upper side.This bit cuts the croze inside the barrel to receive the heading. Thechamferin g and leveling bits are held in mortises by blocks in theusual manner. The crozingdoit may be raised and lowered, to suit thedepth below the edge of the barrel which it is desired to croze, byinserting or removing small blocks of wood H from the mortise of thecrozing-bit. A clamping-screw, I, is employed to tighten and hold saidcrozing-bit in place. The leveling-bit is held in a mortise cut throughfrom the upper surface of the flange G, as shown in the drawing.

I claim as my invention- The coopers plane, composed of the parts A, D,and G, and the irons a, B, and E, substantially as and for the purposedescribed.

In testimony that I claim the above I have hereunto subscribed my namein the presence of two witnesses.

ANTHONY BUSEN GER.

Witnesses WM. 0. REVEROOMB,

